Bumper profits raise pressure on oil majors—

“…Shell, which last week said new investments and decommissioning costs in the North Sea meant it had paid no UK taxes this year despite global profits of more than $30bn in the first nine months of 2022.”

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Belgium under barrage of lawsuits for failing to house migrants— legal complaints lodged with EU.

“…equate these living conditions to inhumane treatment, quoting medical professionals who found signs of malnutrition”

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COVID-19 Inquiry: Children's Rights organisations say UK Govt decisions disproportionately impacted children & rights were not respected.

Jennifer Twite (Jennifer Twite) of Garden Court Chambers, representing Just for Kids Law Save the Children UK Children’s Rights Alliance for England at the Inquiry today.

We’re delighted to have been selected to be Core Participants of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, alongside Save the Children UK, to ensure the impact of govt decision-making on #childrensrights during the pandemic is properly scrutinised and lessons learned. Read more: bit.ly/3zxNPlw

Academics: it’s ridiculous to think that anyone would pay for the prestige of being Twitter verified

Also academics: I need someone to cover this $11k fee because I want to publish my work in a more prestigious journal

Pleased that Save the Children UK— are core participants in module 2 today of UK Covid-19 Inquiry 👉🏽 covid19.public-inquiry.uk/2022/08/uk-cov…

Both mind-body and body-mind interactions are real.

Incredible that the Covid pandemic has polarised three dimensional features…

Should have done the opposite

NEW: a column in the Times argues that the only way to tackle obesity is through fat shaming (yes, you read that right).

It’s an astonishing argument to make, and unsurprisingly it falls to pieces under scrutiny.

Let’s take a look, and see if we can do better:

Workers flee China’s Covid restrictions at Foxconn’s huge iPhone factory—

“as Covid continued to spread, with food and medical supplies running low and workers being locked in dormitory rooms for quarantine — causing hundreds of employees to flee on foot”
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